D Woods speaks out about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: “Constantly treating you like a piece of meat”
Girl group Danity Kane was a big success after their appearance on MTV’s Making the Band in 2005, and they went on to do amazing things. However, the involvement of Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs affected many of the members gravely.
Making The Band saw Combs recruit singers, form a group, and guide them through the music industry. However, apparently, it wasn’t all that simple behind the scenes. Last year, former Danity Kane member Aubrey O’Day did a sit-down interview with TMZ and posted several times on social media.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the vocalist wrote, “[Diddy] plays one of the dirtiest games there is around!” O’Day insists that his “behaviour could’ve been stopped” but said his arrest is a “win for all women.”
Speaking about the effect that Combs has had on her and others like her in the industry, O’Day passionately detailed, “His behaviour could have been stopped long before things like this broke our hearts to read. His abuse didn’t have to reach me & many others, including women, men, & minors who will forever traumatize an entire industry.”
Now, former Danity Kane member D Woods has spoken out about how she felt Combs treated her “like a piece of meat.” The 41-year-old singer recently spoke to ABC News about the producer’s alleged sex crimes and unveiled that she had “troubling interactions” with the music mogul as he helped to progress and later dismantle her professional career.
In a new investigative docuseries, The Fall of Diddy, D Woods revealed, “He did it in different ways with all of us, picking and prodding, just a way to chip and knock away and then praise you.” Within the upcoming docuseries Woods revealed how she remembered that period, “I see myself standing in these dark, scary, predatory spaces, and hearing somebody say some of the most degrading things to me.”
After being assertively asked in what way it was “predatory”, Woods explained, “[There was] Somebody constantly treating you like a piece of meat, only seeing, only valuing you for your sex appeal. In some of the environments, it was even scary to be by yourself.” Woods specified that when she worked with Combs, she was constantly in a “verbally abusive work environment.”
Many former protégés of Combs have been speaking out. Whether it be Cassie, Ma$e, Shyne or Aubrey O’Day, those who have been closest to the mogul have chosen to add their perspective to the conversation currently surrounding the Bad Boy founder. Combs is currently in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre, where he will remain until his trial in May. He faces charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation of sex workers across state lines and denies any wrongdoing.